Walk to object does not completely work for rotated object

[patrick_zweekhorst]

[ FlexSim 20.1.1 ]

Hi,

When you give a person a travel task to a rotated BasicFr it does not travel to the correct location:

The man stops walking at the point shown in the picture. Is this by design and should we solve that ourselves or is this a bug? The man actually walk to the location where the BasicFr would have been if it was not rotated.

Thanks

WalkToLocExample.fsm

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

This isn't happening because the object is rotated, it's because you're object is much longer in one dimension. When a Task Executer travels to an object it takes the longest dimension of the object and uses that as the diameter of a circle that goes around the object. When the TE reaches that circle then they stop their travel task.

This isn't a bug, this is how FlexSim has always worked. Depending on what you're doing in the model you can have the person walk closer to the object using a Travel to Loc activity or a Load/Unload activity.

[patrick_zweekhorst]

Hi @Matthew Gillespie,

Thank you for clarifying this. We did expect a circle, but around the TE, not the object. But you explanation makes sense.